You have most likely learn in regards to the international chip scarcity the world is dealing with as a consequence of provide chain points. Because it seems, there’s additionally a scarcity of undersea cable-laying ships.
You will discover extra on this matter under, adopted by a number of different headlines that made our November listing of telecom studying recs.
One other telco supply-chain scarcity: cable ships
Simply how severe is the cable ship shortage? Briefly, “Provide of cable vessels is close to a breaking level as relentless cost-cutting drives out revenue down the provision chain.”
With the provision of cable upkeep ships additionally strained, the state of affairs might quickly change into a “disaster within the business.”
This Gentle Studying piece will fill you in on what you must know.
The Most Susceptible Place on the Web
In different cable information, WIRED printed an article earlier this month breaking down “the fragility of the world’s 550-plus subsea web cables, plus the outsized position Egypt and the close by Pink Sea have within the web’s infrastructure.”
It is an excellent learn, and also you’ll see our personal Submarine Cable Map and Analysis Director Alan Mauldin featured.
It’s the Mappiest Season of All
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Modeling the Coming Modifications within the WAN
Senior Supervisor Greg Bryan simply launched a visitor put up for MEF. Give it a learn to discover how the work the business is doing at MEF pertains to on-the-ground enterprise community deployments and WAN revenues.
(Greg truly met his most up-to-date podcast visitor—Orchest’s Jeremy Villalobos—at a MEF occasion. You possibly can take heed to that interview over right here.)
A 2022 Replace on Interconnection Geography
Did you catch Senior Analysis Supervisor Patrick Christian’s International Capability Replace on the 2022 European Peering Discussion board?
Revisit his slides (or see them for the primary time) for worldwide bandwidth developments, pricing developments, IX, CDN, and cloud information middle development, and extra.
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